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title: Many were noticed to go about on that afternoon with only one suspen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Many were noticed to go about on that afternoon with only one suspender; but then they had seen Puggie's grave, and the sight was worth much more. Who acts: Many, children, sight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 24

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Many were noticed to go about on that afternoon with only one suspender; but then they had seen Puggie's grave, and the sight was worth much more.

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**Who acts:** Many, children, sight · **What happens:** notice, go about, see, be · **To what, where:** Many, grave

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, children, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:47:24
# text = Many were noticed to go about on that afternoon with only one suspender; but then they had seen Puggie's grave, and the sight was worth much more.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	suspender	suspender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past · passive |  | Many |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go about** | to-infinitive | Many *not said here* |  |  |  | afternoon | with one suspender; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with suspender=Instrument |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | children *= child* | Puggie's grave |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | the sight |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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